- “I am everybody’s guru.”
- “I don’t want anything. I exist only to serve others.”
- “I have no powers. I don’t know anything.”
- “I am the father of the world. The whole world is my child.”
- “Ask God or Hanuman. I’m just an ordinary being. I can do nothing.”
- “Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.”
- “The great sadhus don’t have a human body. They are omnipresent. If a saint changes form, he doesn’t necessarily have to take on a human body. The soul is the small form and the human body is the huge form.”
- “If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don’t act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don’t, and the desire for it will go away.”
- “Always speak the truth.”
- “In India, yoga flows in the blood of people.”
- “It is entirely against the traditions of the ashram that people should get away without getting prasad.”
- “Often one goes for one thing and finds another.”
- “Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.”
- “Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.”
- “When a man has reached the point where he can sit in meditation for six months, there is no need of eating, no need of latrine or of rest. Only one drop of amrit nectar from the top of the head to the body keeps him alive. If a tiger eats that body there is no care, but only when the life comes back to the body will there be pain.”
- “Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment – These are all paths to hell.”
- “Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”
- “Serve as Hanuman served.”
- “See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.”
- “A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.”
- “Women are higher than yogis if they are loyal to their husbands.”
- “Marriage is more attachment. You need more devotion and discipline to have union with God when you are married.”
- “If you desire a mango at the moment of death, you’ll be born an insect. If you even desire the next breath, you will take birth again.”
- “When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.”
- “It doesn’t matter if you are married or not, it only matters how much you love God. He chided: “This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.”
How Far Are You Willing to Go to Wake Up?
May 2, 2024
